Urban Grunfelder
dal 16/6/2008 al 18/7/2008
Segnalato da
16/6/2008
Urban Grunfelder
Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Wien
Recent Works. His sculptors concentration procreates the phantasm, or, the possibility of dignified icons of man like a mirage on the horizon which may stay inaccessible as the ideals of ancient Egyptian civilisation.
The figures we know from Urban Grünfelder¹s paintings now transformed into
clay sculptors in menacing shades: the red of lesion, the green of poison
and the yellow of evil cover rigid doll-like bodies in brilliant varnish. In
monochrome colours and anatomic symmetry they twist into grotesque poses: a
red one sitting in extreme bend holds its ears and pokes its tongue out. Two
bodies wedge into one having either no view or no shelter. The yellow one
crouches head first and bites its own arse.
Smoothly moulded faces and offensive grimaces refracted by empty eyes on
figures in extreme poses express emotion directly, and in face of physical
artificiality they convey a sense of the human ego the red sculptor¹s
hospitalism, the absurd communication of the green one and the obviously
unhinged relation to head and ratio in aid of gold and shit of the yellow
one.
The sculptors¹ concentration procreates the phantasm, or, the possibility of
dignified icons of man like a mirage on the horizon which may stay
inaccessible as the ideals of ancient Egyptian civilisation.
Insofar, Grünfelder maintains the main features of his paintings and expands
his illustration methodology not only through three-dimensionality but also
enforces the psychological of communication in his art by autarkic
caricatures.
Opening, 17.06.2008
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Sonnenfelsgasse 6/Raum III
1010 Vienna